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|+American Library Association's Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults (Top 10 Audiobooks per Year)
|+American Library Association's Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults (Top 10 Audiobooks per Year)
!Award Year
!Book Title
!Genre
!Author
!Author
!Book Title
!Reader(s)
!Reader(s)
!Genre
!Award Year
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| rowspan="10" |2011<ref name=":11">{{Cite web|last=Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA)|date=2010-12-27|title=2011 Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults|url=http://www.ala.org/yalsa/2011-amazing-audiobooks-young-adults|url-status=live|access-date=2021-04-04|website=American Library Association|language=en|archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20210428165004/http://www.ala.org/yalsa/2011-amazing-audiobooks-young-adults |archive-date=2021-04-28 }}</ref>
|''When Stars Are Scattered''
| rowspan="2" |Fantasy
|[[Victoria Jamieson]] and [[Omar Mohamed (writer)|Omar Mohamed]]
|[[Laini Taylor]]
|Full Cast
|''Dreamdark Silksinger''
|Biography, Graphic Novel
|Cassandra Campbell
| rowspan="10" |2021<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|last=Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA)|date=2021-01-04|title=2021 Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults|url=http://www.ala.org/yalsa/2021-amazing-audiobooks-young-adults|url-status=live|access-date=2021-04-03|website=American Library Association|language=en|archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20210104213625/http://www.ala.org/yalsa/2021-amazing-audiobooks-young-adults |archive-date=2021-01-04 }}</ref>
|-
|-
|[[Melina Marchetta]]
|''[[Legendborn]]''
|[[Tracy Deonn]]
|''[[Finnikin of the Rock]]''
|Jeffrey Cummings
|Joniece Abbott-Pratt
| rowspan="7" |Fantasy
|-
|-
|Fantasy, Science-Fiction
|''[[Cemetery Boys]]''
|[[Patrick Ness]]
|[[Aiden Thomas (author)|Aiden Thomas]]
|''[[The Knife of Never Letting Go]]''
|Avi Roque
|Nick Podehl
|-
|-
| rowspan="3" |Fiction
|''[[Clap When You Land]]''
|[[LouAnne Johnson|Louanne Johnson]]
|[[Elizabeth Acevedo]]
|''Muchacho''
|Melania-Luisa Marte and Elizabeth Acevedo
|Ozzie Rodriguez
|-
|-
|[[Sapphire (author)|Sapphire]]
|''[[A Good Girl's Guide to Murder]]''
|''[[Precious (film)|Precious]]''
|[[Holly Jackson]]
|[[Bahni Turpin]]
|Bailey Carr, Melissa Calin, Michael Crouch, Gopal Divan, Robert Fass, Kevin R. Free, Sean Patrick Hopkins, Carol Monda, Patricia Santomasso, Shezi Sardar and Amanda Thickpenny
|-
|-
|[[John Green (author)|John Green]] and [[David Levithan]]
|''[[The Snow Fell Three Graves Deep]]: Voices from the Donner Party''
|''[[Will Grayson, Will Grayson]]''
|[[Allan Wolf]]
|MacLeod Andrews and Nick Podehl
|[[Bahni Turpin]], Whitney Dykhouse, Teri Schnaubelt, Tim Gerard Reynolds, Lauren Ezzo, Eric G. Dove, Ramón de Ocampo, and Shaun Taylor-Corbett
|-
|-
| rowspan="4" |Historical fiction
|''Kent State''
|[[Deborah Wiles]]
|[[Kristin Levine]]
|''The Best Bad Luck I Ever Had''
|Christopher Gebauer, Lauren Ezzo, Christina Delaine, Johnny Heller, Roger Wayne, Korey Jackson, and David de Vries
|[[Kirby Heyborne]]
|-
|-
|[[Rita Garcia Williams]]
|''[[Raybearer]]''
|[[One Crazy Summer (novel)|''One Crazy Summer'']]
|[[Jordan Ifueko]]
|Sisi Aisha Johnson
|Joniece Abbott-Pratt
|-
|-
|[[L.A. Meyer|L. A. Meyer]]
|''[[Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You]]''
|[[Rapture of the Deep (novel)|''Rapture of the Deep'']]
|[[Jason Reynolds]] and [[Ibram X. Kendi]]
|[[Katherine Kellgren]]
|[[Jason Reynolds]] and [[Ibram X. Kendi]]
|Nonfiction
|-
|-
|[[Kekla Magoon]]
|''We Are Not Free''
|''The Rock and the River''
|[[Traci Chee]]
|Dion Graham
|Scott Keiji Takeda, Dan Woren, Ryan Potter, Ali Fumiko, Sophie Oda, Andrew Kishino, Christopher Naoki Lee, Grace Rolek, Erika Aishii, Brittany Ishibashi, Kurt Sanchez Kanazawa and Terry Kitagawa
|Historical fiction
|-
|-
| rowspan="10" |2012<ref name=":10">{{Cite web|last=Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA)|date=2012-01-24|title=2012 Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults Top Ten|url=http://www.ala.org/yalsa/audiobooks/2012/topten|url-status=live|archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20120424171145/http://www.ala.org:80/yalsa/audiobooks/2012/topten|archive-date=2012-04-24|access-date=2021-04-03|website=American Library Association|language=en}}</ref>
|''Dig''
|Biography
|[[A. S. King|A.S. King]]
|[[Georgia Bragg]]
|A.S. King, Mike Chamberlain, Tonya Cornelisse and Kirby Heyborne
|''How They Croaked''
|Fantasy
|L.J. Ganser
| rowspan="10" |2020<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|last=Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA)|date=2020-01-06|title=2020 Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults|url=http://www.ala.org/yalsa/2020-amazing-audiobooks-young-adults|url-status=live|access-date=2021-04-03|website=American Library Association|language=en|archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20200606172607/http://www.ala.org/yalsa/2020-amazing-audiobooks-young-adults |archive-date=2020-06-06 }}</ref>
|-
|-
| rowspan="4" |Fantasy
|''The Fountains of Silence''
|[[Ruta Sepetys]]
|[[Rick Yancey]]
|''Curse of the Wendigo''
|Maite Jáuregui, with Richard Ferrone, Neil Hellegers, Joshua Kane, Liza Kaplan, and Oliver Wyman
|[[Steven Boyer]]
|Historical fiction
|-
|-
|[[Philip Reeve]]
|''Heroine''
|[[Mindy McGinnis]]
|''[[Fever Crumb]]''
|Philip Reeve
|Brittany Pressley
| rowspan="4" |Fiction
|-
|-
|Andrew Smith
|''Let Me Hear a Rhyme''
|''Marbury Lens''
|[[Tiffany D. Jackson]]
|Mark Boyett
|Adenrele Ojo, Korey Jackson, Adam Lazarre-White, and Nile Bullock
|-
|-
|''[[On the Come Up]]''
|[[Jonathan Stroud]]
|''Ring of Solomon''
|[[Angie Thomas]]
|Simon Jones
|[[Bahni Turpin]]
|-
|-
| rowspan="3" |Fiction
|''[[With the Fire on High]]''
|[[Elizabeth Acevedo]]
|[[Louise Rennison]]
|''Are These My Basoomas I See Before Me?''
|[[Elizabeth Acevedo]]
|Stina Nielson
|-
|-
|[[Libba Bray]]
|''Hey Kiddo''
|''Beauty Queens''
|[[Jarrett J. Krosoczka]]
|[[Libba Bray]]
|Jarrett J. Krosoczka, Jeanne Birdsall, Richard Ferrone, and Jenna Lamia
|Memoir, Graphic novel
|-
|-
|[[Brent Crawford]]
|[[Becoming (book)|''Becoming'']]
|''Carter’s Big Break''
|[[Michelle Obama]]
|Nick Podehl
|[[Michelle Obama]]
|Memoir
|-
|-
|Historical fantasy
|''[[Shout (memoir)|Shout]]''
|[[Laurie Halse Anderson]]
|[[Franny Billingsley]]
|''[[Chime (novel)|Chime]]''
|[[Laurie Halse Anderson]]
|[[Susan Duerden]]
|Poetic Memoir
|-
|-
|Historical fiction
|''Internment''
|[[L.A. Meyer]]
|[[Samira Ahmed (author)|Samira Ahmed]]
|''Wake of the Lorelei Lee''
|Soneela Nankani
|[[Katherine Kellgren]]
|Science Fiction
|-
|-
| rowspan="10" |2013<ref name=":9">{{Cite web|last=Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA)|date=2013-01-31|title=2013 Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults Top Ten|url=http://www.ala.org/yalsa/amazing-audiobooks/2013/topten|url-status=live|archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20130318094754/http://www.ala.org:80/yalsa/amazing-audiobooks/2013/topten|archive-date=2013-03-18|access-date=2021-04-03|website=American Library Association|language=en}}</ref>
|''[[Akata Witch]]''
|Autobiography
|[[Nnedi Okorafor]]
|[[Melba Pattillo Beals|Melba Patillo Beals]]
|[[Yetide Badaki]]
|''Warriors Don’t Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High''
| rowspan="4" |Fantasy
|Lisa Renee Pitts
| rowspan="10" |2019<ref name=":3">{{Cite web|last=Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA)|date=2019-01-10|title=2019 Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults|url=http://www.ala.org/yalsa/2019-amazing-audiobooks-young-adults|url-status=live|access-date=2021-04-03|website=American Library Association|language=en|archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20190130212513/http://www.ala.org:80/yalsa/2019-amazing-audiobooks-young-adults |archive-date=2019-01-30 }}</ref>
|-
|-
| rowspan="3" |Fantasy
|''The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge''
|[[Libba Bray]]
|[[Matthew Tobin Anderson|MT Anderson]] and [[Eugene Yelchin]]
|[[The Diviners (Bray novel)|''The Diviners'']]
|[[Gildart Jackson]]
|[[January LaVoy]]
|-
|-
|[[Christopher Paolini]]
|''[[Quidditch Through the Ages]]''
|''Inheritance''
|[[J. K. Rowling|J.K. Rowling]] and [[Kennilworthy Whisp]]
|Gerard Doyle
|[[Andrew Lincoln]]
|-
|-
|[[Rick Yancey]]
|''Thunderhead''
|''The Isle of Blood''
|[[Neal Shusterman]]
|[[Steven Boyer]]
|Greg Trembley
|-
|-
| rowspan="3" |Fiction
|''I Have Lost My Way''
|[[Gayle Forman]]
|[[Jeff Kinney]]
|''[[Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Cabin Fever]]''
|Nicole Lewis, Michael Crouch, and Sunil Malhotra
|Ramon de Ocampo
| rowspan="4" |Fiction
|-
|-
|''[[Lu (novel)|Lu]]''
|[[E.M. Kokie]]
|''Personal Effects''
|[[Jason Reynolds]]
|Nick Podehl
|Guy Lockard
|-
|-
|[[R. J. Palacio|R.J. Palacio]]
|''Sadie''
|''[[Wonder (Palacio novel)|Wonder]]''
|[[Courtney Summers]]
|Diana Steele, Nick Podehl, and Kate Rudd
|Rebecca Soler, Fred Berman, Dan Bittner, Gabra Zackman, and a Full Cast
|-
|-
| rowspan="2" |Historical fiction
|''[[Sunny (novel)|Sunny]]''
|[[Elizabeth E. Wein|Elizabeth Wein]]
|[[Jason Reynolds]]
|''[[Code Name Verity]]''
|Guy Lockard
|Morven Christie and Lucy Gaskell
|-
|-
|[[Educated (book)|''Educated'']]
|[[Allan Wolf (Author)|Allan Wolf]]
|[[The Watch That Ends the Night (Wolf novel)|''The Watch That Ends the Night'']]
|[[Tara Westover]]
|Michael Page, Phil Gigante, Christopher Lane, Laurel Merlington, and Angela Dawe
|[[Julia Whelan]]
|Memoir
|-
|-
|Mystery, Thriller
|''[[The Poet X]]''
|[[Elizabeth Acevedo]]
|[[Niall Leonard]]
|''Crusher''
|[[Elizabeth Acevedo]]
|[[Daniel Weyman]]
|Poetic Fiction
|-
|-
| rowspan="10" |2014<ref name=":8">{{Cite web|last=Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA)|date=2014-01-30|title=2014 Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults Top Ten|url=http://www.ala.org/yalsa/2014-amazing-audiobooks-young-adults-top-ten|url-status=live|archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20140313163936/http://www.ala.org:80/yalsa/2014-amazing-audiobooks-young-adults-top-ten|archive-date=2014-03-13|access-date=2021-04-03|website=American Library Association|language=en}}</ref>
|''[[Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them]]''
|Biography
|[[J. K. Rowling|J.K. Rowling]] and [[Newt Scamander]]
|[[Eddie Redmayne]]
|[[Leon Leyson]]
|''The Boy on the Wooden Box''
| rowspan="2" |Fantasy
|[[Danny Burstein]]
| rowspan="10" |2018<ref name=":4">{{Cite web|last=Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA)|date=2018-01-09|title=2018 Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults|url=http://www.ala.org/yalsa/2018-amazing-audiobooks-young-adults|url-status=live|access-date=2021-04-03|website=American Library Association|language=en|archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20180110182305/http://www.ala.org/yalsa/2018-amazing-audiobooks-young-adults |archive-date=2018-01-10 }}</ref>
|-
|-
| rowspan="3" |Fantasy
|[[Scythe (novel)|''Scythe'']]
|[[Neal Shusterman]]
|[[Gail Carriger]]
|''[[Etiquette & Espionage]]''
|Greg Tremblay
|[[Moira Quirk]]
|-
|-
|[[DC Pierson|D.C. Pierson]]
|''Flying Lessons and Other Stories''
|''Crap Kingdom''
|[[Ellen Oh]] (editor)
|[[DC Pierson|D.C. Pierson]]
|Various
| rowspan="5" |Fiction
|-
|-
|''[[The Hate U Give]]''
|[[Terry Pratchett]]
|[[Dodger (novel)|''Dodger'']]
|[[Angie Thomas]]
|[[Bahni Turpin]]
|[[Stephen Briggs]]
|-
|-
|Fantasy, Horror
|''The Inexplicable Logic of My Life''
|[[Benjamin Alire Sáenz]]
|[[Paolo Bacigalupi]]
|''Zombie Baseball Beatdown''
|[[Robbie Daymond]]
|Sunil Malhotra
|-
|-
| rowspan="2" |Fiction
|''The Pearl Thief''
|[[Sara Farizan]]
|[[Elizabeth E. Wein|Elizabeth Wein]]
|''[[If You Could Be Mine]]''
|Maggie Service
|[[Negin Farsad]]
|-
|-
|[[Rainbow Rowell]]
|''[[The Sun Is Also a Star|The Sun is Also a Star]]''
|[[Nicola Yoon]]
|''[[Eleanor & Park]]''
|Rebecca Lowman and Sunil Malhotra
|Dominic Hoffman, Raymond Lee, and [[Bahni Turpin]]
|-
|-
|Historical Fiction
|''The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue''
|[[Mackenzi Lee]]
|[[L.A. Meyer]]
|''Viva Jacquelina!: Being an Account of the Further Adventures of Jacky Faber, Over the Hills and Far Away''
|[[Christian Coulson]]
|[[Katherine Kellgren]]
|Historical fiction
|-
|-
|Horror, Thriller
|''[[Honor Girl]]''
|[[Daniel Kraus (author)|Daniel Kraus]]
|[[Maggie Thrash]]
|''Scowler''
|[[Ensemble cast|Ensemble Cast]]
|[[Kirby Heyborne]]
|Memoir, Graphic novel
|-
|-
|Science-Fiction
|''Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom: My Story of the 1965 Selma Voting Rights March''
|[[Ian Doescher|Ian Doeschera]]
|[[Lynda Blackmon Lowery]], as told to [[Elspeth Leacock]] and [[Susan Buckley]]
|[[William Shakespeare's Star Wars trilogy|''William Shakespeare's Star Wars'']]
|Damaras Obi
|full cast
|Memoir
|-
|-
| rowspan="10" |2015<ref name=":7">{{Cite web|last=Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA)|date=2015-02-03|title=2015 Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults|url=http://www.ala.org/yalsa/2015-amazing-audiobooks-young-adults|url-status=live|archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20150207082244/http://www.ala.org:80/yalsa/2015-amazing-audiobooks-young-adults|archive-date=2015-02-07|access-date=2021-04-03|website=American Library Association|language=en}}</ref>
|''[[Anna and the Swallow Man]]''
|[[Gavriel Savit]]
|[[Allan Corduner]]
| rowspan="10" |Fiction
| rowspan="10" |Fiction
|[[Emma Pass]]
| rowspan="10" |2017<ref name=":5">{{Cite web|last=Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA)|date=2017-01-25|title=2017 Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults|url=http://www.ala.org/yalsa/2017-amazing-audiobooks-young-adults|url-status=live|access-date=2021-04-03|website=American Library Association|language=en|archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20170322143721/http://www.ala.org/yalsa/2017-amazing-audiobooks-young-adults |archive-date=2017-03-22 }}</ref>
|''ACID''
|Fiona Hardingham with Nicholas Guy Smith and Suzan Crowley
|-
|-
|[[Gail Carriger]]
|''Beast''
|''Curtsies and Conspiracies''
|[[Brie Spangler]]
|[[Andrew Eiden]]
|[[Moira Quirk|Moira Quick]]
|-
|-
|[[Julie Anne Peters]]
|''Gemina''
|''Define Normal''
|[[Amie Kaufman]] and [[Jay Kristoff]]
|[[Christine Lakin]]
|Carla Corvo, MacLeod Andrews, Steve West, and a full cast
|-
|-
|[[Geoff Herbach]]
|''Kill the Boy Band''
|''Fat Boy vs. the Cheerleaders''
|[[Goldy Moldavsky]]
|Nick Podehl
|[[Barrett Wilbert Weed]]
|-
|-
|[[A. S. King|A.S. King]]
|''[[Nimona]]''
|''Glory O’Brien’s History of the Future''
|[[Noelle Stevenson]]
|[[Christine Lakin]]
|Marc Thompson, Rebecca Soler, January LaVoy, Peter Bradbury, Jonathan Davis, [[David Pittu]], and Natalie Gold
|-
|-
|''[[Orbiting Jupiter]]''
|[[Sally Green]]
|[[Gary D. Schmidt]]
|''[[Half Bad]]''
|[[Carl Prekopp]]
|Christopher Gebauer
|-
|-
|''[[Salt to the Sea]]''
|[[Ava Dellaira]]
|''[[Love Letters to the Dead]]''
|[[Ruta Sepetys]]
|[[Julia Whelan]]
|Jorjeana Marie, Will Damron, Cassandra Morris, and Michael Crouch
|-
|-
|''[[Star Wars: Ahsoka]]''
|[[Deborah Wiles]]
|''Revolution''
|[[E. K. Johnston|E.K. Johnston]]
|Stacey Aswad and Francois Battiste with J.D. Jackson and [[Robin Miles]]
|[[Ashley Eckstein]]
|-
|-
|[[Carl Hiaasen]]
|''Traffick''
|[[Skink - No Surrender|''Skink--No Surrender'']]
|[[Ellen Hopkins]]
|[[Kirby Heyborne]]
|Kirby Heyborne, Julia Whelan, Madeleine Maby, Rebekkah Ross, and Jacques Roy
|-
|-
|''[[Wink Poppy Midnight]]''
|[[Ian Doescher]]
|''William Shakespeare’s Star Wars Collection''
|[[April Genevieve Tucholke]]
|Danny Davis, Jonathan Davis, Ian Doescher, Jeff Gurner, January LaVoy, and Marc Thompson
|Michael Crouch, Alicyn Packard, and Caitlin Davies
|-
|-
| rowspan="10" |2016<ref name=":6">{{Cite web|last=Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA)|date=2016-01-11|title=2016 Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults|url=http://www.ala.org/yalsa/2016-amazing-audiobooks-young-adults|url-status=live|archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20160114222706/http://www.ala.org:80/yalsa/2016-amazing-audiobooks-young-adults|archive-date=2016-01-14|access-date=2021-04-03|website=American Library Association|language=en}}</ref>
|''Waistcoats & Weaponry''
| rowspan="9" |Fiction
|[[Gail Carriger]]
|[[Gail Carriger]]
|''Waistcoats & Weaponry''
|[[Moira Quirk|Moira Quick]]
|[[Moira Quirk|Moira Quick]]
| rowspan="9" |Fiction
| rowspan="10" |2016<ref name=":6">{{Cite web|last=Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA)|date=2016-01-11|title=2016 Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults|url=http://www.ala.org/yalsa/2016-amazing-audiobooks-young-adults|url-status=live|access-date=2021-04-03|website=American Library Association|language=en|archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20160114222706/http://www.ala.org:80/yalsa/2016-amazing-audiobooks-young-adults |archive-date=2016-01-14 }}</ref>
|-
|-
|[[Dawn Kurtagich]]
|''[[The Dead House]]''
|''[[The Dead House]]''
|[[Dawn Kurtagich]]
|Charlotte Parry and Christian Coulson
|Charlotte Parry and Christian Coulson
|-
|-
|''Echo''
|[[Pam Muñoz Ryan|Pam Munoz Ryan]]
|[[Pam Muñoz Ryan|Pam Munoz Ryan]]
|''Echo''
|Mark Bramhall, David De Vries, Macleod Andrews, and Rebecca Soler
|Mark Bramhall, David De Vries, Macleod Andrews, and Rebecca Soler
|-
|-
|''Gabi, A Girl in Pieces''
|[[Isabel Quintero]]
|[[Isabel Quintero]]
|''Gabi, A Girl in Pieces''
|Kyla Garcia
|Kyla Garcia
|-
|-
|''[[Half Wild]]''
|[[Sally Green]]
|[[Sally Green]]
|''[[Half Wild]]''
|Carl Prekopp and Kyla Garcia
|Carl Prekopp and Kyla Garcia
|-
|-
|''lluminae''
|[[Amie Kaufman]] and [[Jay Kristoff]]
|[[Amie Kaufman]] and [[Jay Kristoff]]
|''lluminae''
|Olivia Taylor Dudley, Lincoln Hoppe, and Jonathan McClain
|Olivia Taylor Dudley, Lincoln Hoppe, and Jonathan McClain
|-
|-
|''Lair of Dreams''
|[[Libba Bray]]
|[[Libba Bray]]
|''Lair of Dreams''
|[[January LaVoy]]
|[[January LaVoy]]
|-
|-
|''[[Library of Souls]]''
|[[Ransom Riggs]]
|[[Ransom Riggs]]
|''[[Library of Souls]]''
|[[Kirby Heyborne]]
|[[Kirby Heyborne]]
|-
|-
|''Trollhunters''
|[[Guillermo del Toro]] and [[Daniel Kraus (author)|Daniel Kraus]]
|[[Guillermo del Toro]] and [[Daniel Kraus (author)|Daniel Kraus]]
|''Trollhunters''
|[[Kirby Heyborne]]
|[[Kirby Heyborne]]
|-
|-
|Nonfiction
|[[What If? (book)|''What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions'']]
|[[Randall Munroe]]
|[[Randall Munroe]]
|[[What If? (book)|''What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions'']]
|[[Wil Wheaton]]
|[[Wil Wheaton]]
|Nonfiction
|-
|-
| rowspan="10" |2017<ref name=":5">{{Cite web|last=Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA)|date=2017-01-25|title=2017 Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults|url=http://www.ala.org/yalsa/2017-amazing-audiobooks-young-adults|url-status=live|archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20170322143721/http://www.ala.org/yalsa/2017-amazing-audiobooks-young-adults|archive-date=2017-03-22|access-date=2021-04-03|website=American Library Association|language=en}}</ref>
|''ACID''
|[[Emma Pass]]
|Fiona Hardingham with Nicholas Guy Smith and Suzan Crowley
| rowspan="10" |Fiction
| rowspan="10" |Fiction
|[[Gavriel Savit]]
| rowspan="10" |2015<ref name=":7">{{Cite web|last=Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA)|date=2015-02-03|title=2015 Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults|url=http://www.ala.org/yalsa/2015-amazing-audiobooks-young-adults|url-status=live|access-date=2021-04-03|website=American Library Association|language=en|archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20150207082244/http://www.ala.org:80/yalsa/2015-amazing-audiobooks-young-adults |archive-date=2015-02-07 }}</ref>
|''[[Anna and the Swallow Man]]''
|[[Allan Corduner]]
|-
|-
|[[Brie Spangler]]
|''Curtsies and Conspiracies''
|''Beast''
|[[Gail Carriger]]
|[[Moira Quirk|Moira Quick]]
|[[Andrew Eiden]]
|-
|-
|[[Amie Kaufman]] and [[Jay Kristoff]]
|''Define Normal''
|''Gemina''
|[[Julie Anne Peters]]
|Carla Corvo, MacLeod Andrews, Steve West, and a full cast
|[[Christine Lakin]]
|-
|-
|[[Goldy Moldavsky]]
|''Fat Boy vs. the Cheerleaders''
|''Kill the Boy Band''
|[[Geoff Herbach]]
|[[Barrett Wilbert Weed]]
|Nick Podehl
|-
|-
|[[Noelle Stevenson]]
|''Glory O’Brien’s History of the Future''
|''[[Nimona]]''
|[[A. S. King|A.S. King]]
|Marc Thompson, Rebecca Soler, January LaVoy, Peter Bradbury, Jonathan Davis, [[David Pittu]], and Natalie Gold
|[[Christine Lakin]]
|-
|-
|''[[Half Bad]]''
|[[Gary D. Schmidt]]
|[[Sally Green]]
|''[[Orbiting Jupiter]]''
|Christopher Gebauer
|[[Carl Prekopp]]
|-
|-
|[[Ruta Sepetys]]
|''[[Love Letters to the Dead]]''
|[[Ava Dellaira]]
|''[[Salt to the Sea]]''
|Jorjeana Marie, Will Damron, Cassandra Morris, and Michael Crouch
|[[Julia Whelan]]
|-
|-
|[[E. K. Johnston|E.K. Johnston]]
|''Revolution''
|[[Deborah Wiles]]
|''[[Star Wars: Ahsoka]]''
|[[Ashley Eckstein]]
|Stacey Aswad and Francois Battiste with J.D. Jackson and [[Robin Miles]]
|-
|-
|[[Ellen Hopkins]]
|[[Skink - No Surrender|''Skink--No Surrender'']]
|''Traffick''
|[[Carl Hiaasen]]
|Kirby Heyborne, Julia Whelan, Madeleine Maby, Rebekkah Ross, and Jacques Roy
|[[Kirby Heyborne]]
|-
|-
|[[April Genevieve Tucholke]]
|''William Shakespeare’s Star Wars Collection''
|[[Ian Doescher]]
|''[[Wink Poppy Midnight]]''
|Michael Crouch, Alicyn Packard, and Caitlin Davies
|Danny Davis, Jonathan Davis, Ian Doescher, Jeff Gurner, January LaVoy, and Marc Thompson
|-
|-
| rowspan="10" |2018<ref name=":4">{{Cite web|last=Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA)|date=2018-01-09|title=2018 Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults|url=http://www.ala.org/yalsa/2018-amazing-audiobooks-young-adults|url-status=live|archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20180110182305/http://www.ala.org/yalsa/2018-amazing-audiobooks-young-adults|archive-date=2018-01-10|access-date=2021-04-03|website=American Library Association|language=en}}</ref>
|''The Boy on the Wooden Box''
| rowspan="2" |Fantasy
|[[Leon Leyson]]
|[[J. K. Rowling|J.K. Rowling]] and [[Newt Scamander]]
|[[Danny Burstein]]
|''[[Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them]]''
|Biography
|[[Eddie Redmayne]]
| rowspan="10" |2014<ref name=":8">{{Cite web|last=Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA)|date=2014-01-30|title=2014 Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults Top Ten|url=http://www.ala.org/yalsa/2014-amazing-audiobooks-young-adults-top-ten|url-status=live|access-date=2021-04-03|website=American Library Association|language=en|archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20140313163936/http://www.ala.org:80/yalsa/2014-amazing-audiobooks-young-adults-top-ten |archive-date=2014-03-13 }}</ref>
|-
|-
|[[Neal Shusterman]]
|''[[Etiquette & Espionage]]''
|[[Scythe (novel)|''Scythe'']]
|[[Gail Carriger]]
|Greg Tremblay
|[[Moira Quirk]]
| rowspan="3" |Fantasy
|-
|-
| rowspan="5" |Fiction
|''Crap Kingdom''
|[[Ellen Oh]] (editor)
|[[DC Pierson|D.C. Pierson]]
|''Flying Lessons and Other Stories''
|[[DC Pierson|D.C. Pierson]]
|Various
|-
|-
|[[Angie Thomas]]
|[[Dodger (novel)|''Dodger'']]
|[[Terry Pratchett]]
|''[[The Hate U Give]]''
|[[Stephen Briggs]]
|[[Bahni Turpin]]
|-
|-
|[[Benjamin Alire Sáenz]]
|''Zombie Baseball Beatdown''
|''The Inexplicable Logic of My Life''
|[[Paolo Bacigalupi]]
|[[Robbie Daymond]]
|Sunil Malhotra
|Fantasy, Horror
|-
|-
|[[Elizabeth E. Wein|Elizabeth Wein]]
|''[[If You Could Be Mine]]''
|''The Pearl Thief''
|[[Sara Farizan]]
|Maggie Service
|[[Negin Farsad]]
| rowspan="2" |Fiction
|-
|-
|''[[Eleanor & Park]]''
|[[Nicola Yoon]]
|''[[The Sun Is Also a Star|The Sun is Also a Star]]''
|[[Rainbow Rowell]]
|Dominic Hoffman, Raymond Lee, and [[Bahni Turpin]]
|Rebecca Lowman and Sunil Malhotra
|-
|-
|Historical fiction
|''Viva Jacquelina!: Being an Account of the Further Adventures of Jacky Faber, Over the Hills and Far Away''
|[[L.A. Meyer]]
|[[Mackenzi Lee]]
|''The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue''
|[[Katherine Kellgren]]
|[[Christian Coulson]]
|Historical Fiction
|-
|-
|Memoir
|''Scowler''
|[[Lynda Blackmon Lowery]], as told to [[Elspeth Leacock]] and [[Susan Buckley]]
|[[Daniel Kraus (author)|Daniel Kraus]]
|''Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom: My Story of the 1965 Selma Voting Rights March''
|[[Kirby Heyborne]]
|Damaras Obi
|Horror, Thriller
|-
|-
|Memoir, Graphic novel
|[[William Shakespeare's Star Wars trilogy|''William Shakespeare's Star Wars'']]
|[[Maggie Thrash]]
|[[Ian Doescher|Ian Doeschera]]
|''[[Honor Girl]]''
|full cast
|[[Ensemble cast|Ensemble Cast]]
|Science-Fiction
|-
|-
| rowspan="10" |2019<ref name=":3">{{Cite web|last=Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA)|date=2019-01-10|title=2019 Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults|url=http://www.ala.org/yalsa/2019-amazing-audiobooks-young-adults|url-status=live|archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20190130212513/http://www.ala.org:80/yalsa/2019-amazing-audiobooks-young-adults|archive-date=2019-01-30|access-date=2021-04-03|website=American Library Association|language=en}}</ref>
|''Warriors Don’t Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High''
| rowspan="4" |Fantasy
|[[Melba Pattillo Beals|Melba Patillo Beals]]
|[[Nnedi Okorafor]]
|Lisa Renee Pitts
|''[[Akata Witch]]''
|Autobiography
|[[Yetide Badaki]]
| rowspan="10" |2013<ref name=":9">{{Cite web|last=Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA)|date=2013-01-31|title=2013 Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults Top Ten|url=http://www.ala.org/yalsa/amazing-audiobooks/2013/topten|url-status=live|access-date=2021-04-03|website=American Library Association|language=en|archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20130318094754/http://www.ala.org:80/yalsa/amazing-audiobooks/2013/topten |archive-date=2013-03-18 }}</ref>
|-
|-
|[[Matthew Tobin Anderson|MT Anderson]] and [[Eugene Yelchin]]
|[[The Diviners (Bray novel)|''The Diviners'']]
|''The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge''
|[[Libba Bray]]
|[[January LaVoy]]
|[[Gildart Jackson]]
| rowspan="3" |Fantasy
|-
|-
|[[J. K. Rowling|J.K. Rowling]] and [[Kennilworthy Whisp]]
|''Inheritance''
|''[[Quidditch Through the Ages]]''
|[[Christopher Paolini]]
|[[Andrew Lincoln]]
|Gerard Doyle
|-
|-
|[[Neal Shusterman]]
|''The Isle of Blood''
|''Thunderhead''
|[[Rick Yancey]]
|Greg Trembley
|[[Steven Boyer]]
|-
|-
| rowspan="4" |Fiction
|''[[Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Cabin Fever]]''
|[[Jeff Kinney]]
|[[Gayle Forman]]
|''I Have Lost My Way''
|Ramon de Ocampo
|Nicole Lewis, Michael Crouch, and Sunil Malhotra
| rowspan="3" |Fiction
|-
|-
|[[Jason Reynolds]]
|''Personal Effects''
|[[E.M. Kokie]]
|''[[Lu (novel)|Lu]]''
|Guy Lockard
|Nick Podehl
|-
|-
|[[Courtney Summers]]
|''[[Wonder (Palacio novel)|Wonder]]''
|''Sadie''
|[[R. J. Palacio|R.J. Palacio]]
|Rebecca Soler, Fred Berman, Dan Bittner, Gabra Zackman, and a Full Cast
|Diana Steele, Nick Podehl, and Kate Rudd
|-
|-
|''[[Code Name Verity]]''
|[[Jason Reynolds]]
|''[[Sunny (novel)|Sunny]]''
|[[Elizabeth E. Wein|Elizabeth Wein]]
|Guy Lockard
|Morven Christie and Lucy Gaskell
| rowspan="2" |Historical fiction
|-
|-
|Memoir
|[[The Watch That Ends the Night (Wolf novel)|''The Watch That Ends the Night'']]
|[[Tara Westover]]
|[[Allan Wolf (Author)|Allan Wolf]]
|[[Educated (book)|''Educated'']]
|Michael Page, Phil Gigante, Christopher Lane, Laurel Merlington, and Angela Dawe
|[[Julia Whelan]]
|-
|-
|Poetic Fiction
|''Crusher''
|[[Niall Leonard]]
|[[Elizabeth Acevedo]]
|[[Daniel Weyman]]
|''[[The Poet X]]''
|[[Elizabeth Acevedo]]
|Mystery, Thriller
|-
|-
| rowspan="10" |2020<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|last=Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA)|date=2020-01-06|title=2020 Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults|url=http://www.ala.org/yalsa/2020-amazing-audiobooks-young-adults|url-status=live|archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20200606172607/http://www.ala.org/yalsa/2020-amazing-audiobooks-young-adults|archive-date=2020-06-06|access-date=2021-04-03|website=American Library Association|language=en}}</ref>
|''How They Croaked''
|Fantasy
|[[Georgia Bragg]]
|[[A. S. King|A.S. King]]
|L.J. Ganser
|''Dig''
|Biography
|A.S. King, Mike Chamberlain, Tonya Cornelisse and Kirby Heyborne
| rowspan="10" |2012<ref name=":10">{{Cite web|last=Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA)|date=2012-01-24|title=2012 Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults Top Ten|url=http://www.ala.org/yalsa/audiobooks/2012/topten|url-status=live|access-date=2021-04-03|website=American Library Association|language=en|archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20120424171145/http://www.ala.org:80/yalsa/audiobooks/2012/topten |archive-date=2012-04-24 }}</ref>
|-
|-
| rowspan="4" |Fiction
|''Curse of the Wendigo''
|[[Rick Yancey]]
|[[Mindy McGinnis]]
|''Heroine''
|[[Steven Boyer]]
|Brittany Pressley
| rowspan="4" |Fantasy
|-
|-
|''[[Fever Crumb]]''
|[[Tiffany D. Jackson]]
|''Let Me Hear a Rhyme''
|[[Philip Reeve]]
|Adenrele Ojo, Korey Jackson, Adam Lazarre-White, and Nile Bullock
|Philip Reeve
|-
|-
|[[Angie Thomas]]
|''Marbury Lens''
|''[[On the Come Up]]''
|Andrew Smith
|[[Bahni Turpin]]
|Mark Boyett
|-
|-
|[[Elizabeth Acevedo]]
|''Ring of Solomon''
|''[[With the Fire on High]]''
|[[Jonathan Stroud]]
|[[Elizabeth Acevedo]]
|Simon Jones
|-
|-
|Historical fiction
|''Are These My Basoomas I See Before Me?''
|[[Louise Rennison]]
|[[Ruta Sepetys]]
|''The Fountains of Silence''
|Stina Nielson
|Maite Jáuregui, with Richard Ferrone, Neil Hellegers, Joshua Kane, Liza Kaplan, and Oliver Wyman
| rowspan="3" |Fiction
|-
|-
|Memoir
|''Beauty Queens''
|[[Libba Bray]]
|[[Michelle Obama]]
|[[Becoming (book)|''Becoming'']]
|[[Libba Bray]]
|[[Michelle Obama]]
|-
|-
|Memoir, Graphic novel
|''Carter’s Big Break''
|[[Brent Crawford]]
|[[Jarrett J. Krosoczka]]
|''Hey Kiddo''
|Nick Podehl
|Jarrett J. Krosoczka, Jeanne Birdsall, Richard Ferrone, and Jenna Lamia
|-
|-
|Poetic Memoir
|''[[Chime (novel)|Chime]]''
|[[Franny Billingsley]]
|[[Laurie Halse Anderson]]
|[[Susan Duerden]]
|''[[Shout (memoir)|Shout]]''
|[[Laurie Halse Anderson]]
|Historical fantasy
|-
|-
|Science Fiction
|''Wake of the Lorelei Lee''
|[[Samira Ahmed (author)|Samira Ahmed]]
|[[L.A. Meyer]]
|''Internment''
|[[Katherine Kellgren]]
|Soneela Nankani
|Historical fiction
|-
|-
| rowspan="10" |2021<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|last=Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA)|date=2021-01-04|title=2021 Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults|url=http://www.ala.org/yalsa/2021-amazing-audiobooks-young-adults|url-status=live|archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20210104213625/http://www.ala.org/yalsa/2021-amazing-audiobooks-young-adults|archive-date=2021-01-04|access-date=2021-04-03|website=American Library Association|language=en}}</ref>
|''Dreamdark Silksinger''
|Biography, Graphic Novel
|[[Laini Taylor]]
|[[Victoria Jamieson]] and [[Omar Mohamed (writer)|Omar Mohamed]]
|Cassandra Campbell
|''When Stars Are Scattered''
| rowspan="2" |Fantasy
|Full Cast
| rowspan="10" |2011<ref name=":11">{{Cite web|last=Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA)|date=2010-12-27|title=2011 Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults|url=http://www.ala.org/yalsa/2011-amazing-audiobooks-young-adults|url-status=live|access-date=2021-04-04|website=American Library Association|language=en|archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20210428165004/http://www.ala.org/yalsa/2011-amazing-audiobooks-young-adults |archive-date=2021-04-28 }}</ref>
|-
|-
| rowspan="7" |Fantasy
|''[[Finnikin of the Rock]]''
|[[Melina Marchetta]]
|[[Tracy Deonn]]
|''[[Legendborn]]''
|Jeffrey Cummings
|Joniece Abbott-Pratt
|-
|-
|[[Aiden Thomas (author)|Aiden Thomas]]
|''[[The Knife of Never Letting Go]]''
|[[Patrick Ness]]
|''[[Cemetery Boys]]''
|Avi Roque
|Nick Podehl
|Fantasy, Science-Fiction
|-
|-
|[[Elizabeth Acevedo]]
|''Muchacho''
|''[[Clap When You Land]]''
|[[LouAnne Johnson|Louanne Johnson]]
|Melania-Luisa Marte and Elizabeth Acevedo
|Ozzie Rodriguez
| rowspan="3" |Fiction
|-
|-
|[[Holly Jackson]]
|''[[Precious (film)|Precious]]''
|''[[A Good Girl's Guide to Murder]]''
|[[Sapphire (author)|Sapphire]]
|Bailey Carr, Melissa Calin, Michael Crouch, Gopal Divan, Robert Fass, Kevin R. Free, Sean Patrick Hopkins, Carol Monda, Patricia Santomasso, Shezi Sardar and Amanda Thickpenny
|[[Bahni Turpin]]
|-
|-
|[[Allan Wolf]]
|''[[Will Grayson, Will Grayson]]''
|''[[The Snow Fell Three Graves Deep]]: Voices from the Donner Party''
|[[John Green (author)|John Green]] and [[David Levithan]]
|[[Bahni Turpin]], Whitney Dykhouse, Teri Schnaubelt, Tim Gerard Reynolds, Lauren Ezzo, Eric G. Dove, Ramón de Ocampo, and Shaun Taylor-Corbett
|MacLeod Andrews and Nick Podehl
|-
|-
|[[Deborah Wiles]]
|''The Best Bad Luck I Ever Had''
|''Kent State''
|[[Kristin Levine]]
|Christopher Gebauer, Lauren Ezzo, Christina Delaine, Johnny Heller, Roger Wayne, Korey Jackson, and David de Vries
|[[Kirby Heyborne]]
| rowspan="4" |Historical fiction
|-
|-
|[[Jordan Ifueko]]
|[[One Crazy Summer (novel)|''One Crazy Summer'']]
|''[[Raybearer]]''
|[[Rita Garcia Williams]]
|Joniece Abbott-Pratt
|Sisi Aisha Johnson
|-
|-
|Historical fiction
|[[Rapture of the Deep (novel)|''Rapture of the Deep'']]
|[[L.A. Meyer|L. A. Meyer]]
|[[Traci Chee]]
|''We Are Not Free''
|[[Katherine Kellgren]]
|Scott Keiji Takeda, Dan Woren, Ryan Potter, Ali Fumiko, Sophie Oda, Andrew Kishino, Christopher Naoki Lee, Grace Rolek, Erika Aishii, Brittany Ishibashi, Kurt Sanchez Kanazawa and Terry Kitagawa
|-
|-
|Nonfiction
|''The Rock and the River''
|[[Jason Reynolds]] and [[Ibram X. Kendi]]
|[[Kekla Magoon]]
|''[[Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You]]''
|Dion Graham
|[[Jason Reynolds]] and [[Ibram X. Kendi]]
|}
|}


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The American Library Association's Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults, formerly Selected Audiobooks for Young Adults, is a recommendation list of audiobooks presented yearly by the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) division.

The Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) released the first list of Selected Audiobooks for Young Adults in 1999.[1] In 2009, the list was renamed as Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults.[1]

The list can be used to help young adult readers find suitable audiobooks, which "are an underused treasure in school libraries. Teacher librarians can use them to draw new readers into the library and find new ways to connect with teachers."[2] However, finding quality audiobooks can be difficult as one must consider the audiobook's sound quality, pacing, variety, cultural authenticity, narrators (professional versus volunteer; computer versus human), as well as matching readers' interests, reading ability, the audiobook's length, and more.[2] To help address these challenges, several librarians and organizations recommend parents and teachers use the Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults list to find audiobooks for young adults.[1][2][3][4][5][6]

Criteria

To be eligible for the list, the audiobook "must have been produced or released within the 24 months previous to the list’s release."[7] The audiobooks cover a range of topics and are targeted toward individuals between the ages of 12 and 18.[7] To land a place on the list, audiobooks are judged on the following criteria:[7]

  • The audiobooks must appeal to young adults age 12 to 18. This includes book whose text versions may not be suitable to this demographic.
  • If the material is adapted, it "must remain true to, expand, or complement the original work"
  • The audiobook must effectively use voice, music, sound effects, and/or language
  • The audiobook must be appropriate for audio presentation
  • The audiobook must have a suitable match between the performer and the text.
  • The audiobook must be professionally produced.
  • All words within the audiobook must be pronounced correctly.
  • The audiobook must be clearly recorded.
  • The audiobook must include informative packaging.

Honorees

After honoring all amazing audiobooks, the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) selects ten books every year, which are "the best of the best."[8]

American Library Association's Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults (Top 10 Audiobooks per Year)
Award Year Genre Author Book Title Reader(s)
2011[9] Fantasy Laini Taylor Dreamdark Silksinger Cassandra Campbell
Melina Marchetta Finnikin of the Rock Jeffrey Cummings
Fantasy, Science-Fiction Patrick Ness The Knife of Never Letting Go Nick Podehl
Fiction Louanne Johnson Muchacho Ozzie Rodriguez
Sapphire Precious Bahni Turpin
John Green and David Levithan Will Grayson, Will Grayson MacLeod Andrews and Nick Podehl
Historical fiction Kristin Levine The Best Bad Luck I Ever Had Kirby Heyborne
Rita Garcia Williams One Crazy Summer Sisi Aisha Johnson
L. A. Meyer Rapture of the Deep Katherine Kellgren
Kekla Magoon The Rock and the River Dion Graham
2012[10] Biography Georgia Bragg How They Croaked L.J. Ganser
Fantasy Rick Yancey Curse of the Wendigo Steven Boyer
Philip Reeve Fever Crumb Philip Reeve
Andrew Smith Marbury Lens Mark Boyett
Jonathan Stroud Ring of Solomon Simon Jones
Fiction Louise Rennison Are These My Basoomas I See Before Me? Stina Nielson
Libba Bray Beauty Queens Libba Bray
Brent Crawford Carter’s Big Break Nick Podehl
Historical fantasy Franny Billingsley Chime Susan Duerden
Historical fiction L.A. Meyer Wake of the Lorelei Lee Katherine Kellgren
2013[11] Autobiography Melba Patillo Beals Warriors Don’t Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High Lisa Renee Pitts
Fantasy Libba Bray The Diviners January LaVoy
Christopher Paolini Inheritance Gerard Doyle
Rick Yancey The Isle of Blood Steven Boyer
Fiction Jeff Kinney Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Cabin Fever Ramon de Ocampo
E.M. Kokie Personal Effects Nick Podehl
R.J. Palacio Wonder Diana Steele, Nick Podehl, and Kate Rudd
Historical fiction Elizabeth Wein Code Name Verity Morven Christie and Lucy Gaskell
Allan Wolf The Watch That Ends the Night Michael Page, Phil Gigante, Christopher Lane, Laurel Merlington, and Angela Dawe
Mystery, Thriller Niall Leonard Crusher Daniel Weyman
2014[12] Biography Leon Leyson The Boy on the Wooden Box Danny Burstein
Fantasy Gail Carriger Etiquette & Espionage Moira Quirk
D.C. Pierson Crap Kingdom D.C. Pierson
Terry Pratchett Dodger Stephen Briggs
Fantasy, Horror Paolo Bacigalupi Zombie Baseball Beatdown Sunil Malhotra
Fiction Sara Farizan If You Could Be Mine Negin Farsad
Rainbow Rowell Eleanor & Park Rebecca Lowman and Sunil Malhotra
Historical Fiction L.A. Meyer Viva Jacquelina!: Being an Account of the Further Adventures of Jacky Faber, Over the Hills and Far Away Katherine Kellgren
Horror, Thriller Daniel Kraus Scowler Kirby Heyborne
Science-Fiction Ian Doeschera William Shakespeare's Star Wars full cast
2015[13] Fiction Emma Pass ACID Fiona Hardingham with Nicholas Guy Smith and Suzan Crowley
Gail Carriger Curtsies and Conspiracies Moira Quick
Julie Anne Peters Define Normal Christine Lakin
Geoff Herbach Fat Boy vs. the Cheerleaders Nick Podehl
A.S. King Glory O’Brien’s History of the Future Christine Lakin
Sally Green Half Bad Carl Prekopp
Ava Dellaira Love Letters to the Dead Julia Whelan
Deborah Wiles Revolution Stacey Aswad and Francois Battiste with J.D. Jackson and Robin Miles
Carl Hiaasen Skink--No Surrender Kirby Heyborne
Ian Doescher William Shakespeare’s Star Wars Collection Danny Davis, Jonathan Davis, Ian Doescher, Jeff Gurner, January LaVoy, and Marc Thompson
2016[14] Fiction Gail Carriger Waistcoats & Weaponry Moira Quick
Dawn Kurtagich The Dead House Charlotte Parry and Christian Coulson
Pam Munoz Ryan Echo Mark Bramhall, David De Vries, Macleod Andrews, and Rebecca Soler
Isabel Quintero Gabi, A Girl in Pieces Kyla Garcia
Sally Green Half Wild Carl Prekopp and Kyla Garcia
Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff lluminae Olivia Taylor Dudley, Lincoln Hoppe, and Jonathan McClain
Libba Bray Lair of Dreams January LaVoy
Ransom Riggs Library of Souls Kirby Heyborne
Guillermo del Toro and Daniel Kraus Trollhunters Kirby Heyborne
Nonfiction Randall Munroe What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions Wil Wheaton
2017[15] Fiction Gavriel Savit Anna and the Swallow Man Allan Corduner
Brie Spangler Beast Andrew Eiden
Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff Gemina Carla Corvo, MacLeod Andrews, Steve West, and a full cast
Goldy Moldavsky Kill the Boy Band Barrett Wilbert Weed
Noelle Stevenson Nimona Marc Thompson, Rebecca Soler, January LaVoy, Peter Bradbury, Jonathan Davis, David Pittu, and Natalie Gold
Gary D. Schmidt Orbiting Jupiter Christopher Gebauer
Ruta Sepetys Salt to the Sea Jorjeana Marie, Will Damron, Cassandra Morris, and Michael Crouch
E.K. Johnston Star Wars: Ahsoka Ashley Eckstein
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Benjamin Alire Sáenz The Inexplicable Logic of My Life Robbie Daymond
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Historical fiction Mackenzi Lee The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue Christian Coulson
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